Virtual tour panorama showing a view down Bridge Street, the Peterborough Tourist Information Centre and surrounding shops. Image taken late June 2011 during a local festival.

Peterborough Tourist Informaiton Office - Peterborough visitor guide showing a virtual tour of 'Peterborough Tourist Informaiton Office' linked to an interactive map with local and travel information. 360° panoramas from Cambridgeshire.

Peterborough is a cathedral city in the Cambridgeshire Fens on the banks of the River Nene. The Peterborough Tourist Information Centre (TIC), called the Peterborough Visitor Destination Centre, lies on a busy shopping street right at the heart of the historic city center. It is close to Peterborough Cathedral, the main tourist attraction in the city. The TIC is open Monday to Saturdays and provides a one stop information point for the local attractions, hotels, B&B's businesses, restaurants, bars, clubs and local shops.

The Tourist Information Centre can also sell tickets to various local attractions, including the Key Theatre, and has a small gift shop. The TIC has many leaflets promoting various attractions throughout Cambridgeshire, information about local public transport options, taxis and city maps and diaries of local events and festivals. This interactive map also shows some of the sights and attractions in Peterborough and can help you prepare for your visit.

Peterborough - Tourist Attractions

• Peterborough Cathedral - 12th century cathedral built to serve the monastery founded in 655 and now the seat of the Bishop of Peterborough, and the associated Bishops Gardens.
• Longthorpe Tower - three storey, 14th century tower, now a Grade I listed building and scheduled monument, found in Longthorpe, about 3km from Peterborough city centre.
• The Nene Valley Railway - 7.5 mile heritage railway maintained by the Peterborough Railway Society and home to Railroad rail museum.
• Flag Fen - Bronze Age archaeological site discovered in 1982 in which was found probably the oldest wheel in Britain. The Fen Causeway Roman Road also crosses the site.
• Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery - housed in an early 19th century building with some 277,000 objects of local history, archaeology and art.
• River Nene - the river that flows through Peterborough, along which there are walking and cycling routes, popular with canal and leisure boats and anglers.
• The Lido - Open air public swimming pool near the center of Peterborough.
• Burghley House - a little north of Peterborough, 16th century country manor house designed by Sir William Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who was Lord High Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I.
• The Nene Park - 3.5 mile long park with several llakes, Ferrry Meadows and a water sports centre.
• Southey Wood - mixed woodland between the villages of Upton and Ufford, near to several Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) such as Castor Hanglands, Barnack Hills and Holes and Bedford Purlieus national nature reserves.
• St John The Baptist Church - built in 1407 this is a Grade I listed church building with a rich history.

Peterborough Tourist Information Centre
9 Bridge Street,
Peterborough,
Cambridgeshire PE1 1HJ
Phone: 01733 452336 ‎
Emal: tic@peterborough.gov.uk
Web: visitpeterborough.com

Road: Peterborough is near the northern end of the A1(M) at the meeting of the A15, A47 and A1139 roads. It is about 37 miles north of Cambridge, 80 miles west of Norwich and 40 miles east of Leicester.
Train: Peterborough Station on East Coast Main Line, about an hour out of London